EAN: 9781526680044

SHAMSIE KAMILA BEST OF FRIENDS

?A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces' MADELINE MILLER  ** SHORTLISTED FOR
THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2023 ** PICKED AS ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES' BEST PAPERBACKS OF 2023**
CHOSEN AS A BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR BY THE GUARDIAN  BBC  OBSERVER  DAILY MAIL  IRISH TIMES AND
FINANCIAL TIMES **  Sometimes it was as though the forty years of friendship between them was
just a lesson in the unknowability of other people...  In 1988  as Pakistan is on the brink of
political overhaul  two fourteen year-old girls are on the brink of womanhood. Their Arcadian
days of secrets  laughter and a shared love for George Michael are brought crashing down when a
snap decision at a party changes their lives forever.  Years later in London  Zahra and Maryam
are women with money  power and influence. They are both  however  still haunted by that night
all those years ago.  Insightful and unsettling  Best of Friends employs sumptuous prose to
unpick the seams of a forty-year friendship and illuminate the ripple-like effects of power and
history.   'An epic story that explores the ties of childhood friendship  the possibility of
escape  the way the political world intrudes into the personal  all through the lens of two
sharply drawn protagonists' Observer

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